Editing London (section)

=== Country of birth ===
The 2021 census recorded that 3,575,739 people or 40.6% of London's population were [[Foreign-born population of the United Kingdom|foreign-born]],<ref name="Census2021">{{cite news |title=International migration, England and Wales: Census 2021 |url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/internationalmigration/bulletins/internationalmigrationenglandandwales/census2021#:~:text=London%20has%20remained%20the%20region,had%20a%20non%2DUK%20passport |access-date=3 December 2022 |publisher=ONS}}</ref> making it among the cities with the [[foreign born#Cities with largest foreign born populations|largest immigrant population]] in terms of absolute numbers and a growth of roughly 3 million since 1971 when the foreign born population was 668,373.<ref>{{Cite web |last=UK Data Service |first=Jisc |date=21 March 2013 |title=Casweb |url=https://casweb.ukdataservice.ac.uk//index.htm |access-date=14 January 2024 |website=casweb.ukdataservice.ac.uk |language=English}}</ref> 13% of the total population were Asian born (32.1% of the total foreign born population), 7.1% are African born (17.5%), 15.5% are Other European born (38.2%), and 4.2% were born in the Americas and Caribbean (10.3%).<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Countries of birth - Office for National Statistics |url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/datasets/create/filter-outputs/2260f256-3757-4b75-835d-b904cb29a357 |access-date=14 January 2024 |website=ons.gov.uk}}</ref> The 5 largest single countries of origin were respectively India, Romania, Poland, Bangladesh and Pakistan.<ref name=":3" />

About 56.8% of children born in London in 2021 were born to a mother who was born abroad.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=Parents' country of birth - Office for National Statistics |url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/datasets/parentscountryofbirth |access-date=14 January 2024 |website=ons.gov.uk}}</ref> This trend has been increasing in the past two decades when foreign born mothers made up 43.3% of births in 2001 in London, becoming the majority in the middle of the 2000s by 2006 comprising 52.5%.<ref name=":4" />

A large degree of the foreign born population who were present at the 2021 census had arrived relatively recently. Of the total population, those that arrived between the years of 2011 and 2021 account for 16.6% of London.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |title=Year of arrival in the uk - Office for National Statistics |url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/datasets/create/filter-outputs/038e579d-69a5-4765-821f-864f6d4ea8a1 |access-date=14 January 2024 |website=ons.gov.uk}}</ref> Those who arrived between 2001 and 2010 are 10.4%, between 1991 and 2001, 5.7%, and prior to 1990, 7.3%.<ref name=":6" />